News > 1/8th Stock Cars 1st National Round- Leicester 10/04/2011

34 Drivers in the pits for the opening National of 2011 with lots of drivers eager on making a good start to the National Series.

Round 1

The opening brought some good laps from World Champion Mark Whittaker with 52, European Champion Jody Foster with 51 also Lee Wearing with 51 with Nora Drivers Gary Osborne and Dick Batty with 50 Laps.

Round 2

Round 2 started with a new Ftd for Scott Grocock with 53 with Mark and Jody and Lee sharing the same laps of 51 with Ben Harding on 50 Laps.

Round 3

Mark took the most laps in this round with 52 closely followed by Scott, Ben and a very consistent Lee Wearing with 51 his third score of 51 with Jody, Simon Farrer and Steve Farren on 50 Laps

Round 4

The final round of heats with all still to play for top laps in this round went to Jody with 52 chased behind by Ben, Mark and Lee with 51 Laps

The Semi Finals were drawn now the qualifying.

Semi Finalists

Tom Gardner
Steve Farren
Nigel Williamson
Lee Wearing
Jonathan Goodacre
Stevie Whitehead

Scott Grocock
Barrie Gregory
Simon Farrer
Ben Harding
Steve Farrer
Andrew Whittaker

Going straight through to the final was Jody Foster and Mark Whittaker going through from the 2 semi finals making the 6 six car national final

Finalists

Jody Foster

Mark Whittaker

Scott Grocock

Ben Harding

Steve Farrer

Steve Farren

The final started and it was very close between all the drivers swapping positions but Jody managed to get away and wasn’t going to be headed to take the win

Result

1 Jody Foster 66 Laps

2 Mark Whittaker 64 Laps

3 Steve Farrer 63 Laps

4 Ben Harding 62 Laps

5 Steve Farren 61 Laps

6 Scott Grocock 56 Laps

A fantastic meeting held by the Leicester Club and well done to Jody.